And here's our Filmspotting deep dive anniversary review:

Tom re-framing "bad contracts" as contracts that undervalue PLAYERS, is why he's the best and NBA junkies should subscribe to his newsletter.

This is quite reasonable.

I'm in on THE BRIDE! larsenonfilm.com/the-bride

Filmspotting Meetup Berlin! Friday, April 10. Join us?

Filmspotting Madness: Best of the 1940s - NOW LIVE! www.filmspotting.net/madness64

Having recently written a grad-school paper titled "Confusing My Religion: R.E.M. as Post-Secular Inflection Point," I appreciated this @pastemagazine.bsky.social 35th anniversary revisit of OUT OF TIME. ("Losing My Religion" is so much more complicated than you remember.)

I'm in on THE BRIDE! larsenonfilm.com/the-bride

Filmspotting Madness: Best of the 1940s - NOW LIVE! www.filmspotting.net/madness64

It seems this line from my original ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER review applies to current discourse.

It seems this line from my original ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER review applies to current discourse.

There's two weeks left to apply, all you aspiring film critics out there in Chicagoland!

Passes are on sale now for this year's Chicago Critics Film Festival, held at the @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social May 1-7, 2026. Get your early bird pass now: musicboxtheatre.com/series-and-f...

Oof. This is beautiful. "In reality, coming out is an ongoing process, an eternal practice of vulnerability."

Scott had me at Pee-wee Herman...

A truly excellent @kphipps3000.bsky.social rumination today on video stores, inspired by Alex Ross Perry's VIDEOHEAVEN and the Criterion Channel VHS series. Not a nostalgia piece, but a more clear-headed remembrance of a bygone era. (Also free to read!): thereveal.film/ghosts-of-vi...

Taking band name suggestions for our Copenhagen Filmspotting meetup...

I wrote something--4000 words' worth of something!--for the Yale Review about Hamnet the book, Hamnet the movie, & the riddle of representing Shakespeare's life on the page & on the screen.

Taking band name suggestions for our Copenhagen Filmspotting meetup...

Matt has gone above and beyond to support so many writers. Now it’s time to support him.

There is a virtual book launch for "My Impossible Soul: The Metamodern Music of Sufjan Stevens" happening Friday, March 6, 19:00 GMT / 20:00 CET / 14:00 ET / 11:00 PT. Contact @miserchristmas.bsky.social or @gregdember.bsky.social for the link. www.bloomsbury.com/us/my-imposs...

Goodbye to chilly Stockholm and its ice-floating swans, on to Copenhagen.

For anyone interested, we did a Contemporary Iranian Cinema Marathon on Filmspotting in 2012. www.filmspotting.net/contemporary...

🚨 Calling all aspiring film critics in the Chicagoland area! 🚨 Applications for the Chicago Critics Association and Rotten Tomatoes Emerging Critics Program are now open! Details and how to apply here: chicagofilmcritics.org/grant Deadline to apply is March 27th, 2026!

Out now: www.filmspotting.net/episodes-arc...

And away we go! Chicago Critics Film Festival is coming soon.

For anyone interested, we did a Contemporary Iranian Cinema Marathon on Filmspotting in 2012. www.filmspotting.net/contemporary...

Out now: www.filmspotting.net/episodes-arc...

Just had a blast recording a Top 5 Catherine O'Hara Characters episode of Filmspotting, out this Friday. She was special.

🚨 JOURNALISM JOB ALERT 🚨 Come work with me and a bunch of people who are much more interesting than me on the @propublica.org Audience team! It's a full-time, 2-year position with benefits. Details, including salary range and application info, here👇👇

Will shamelessly use this bit of weird-ass news to re-up a reported feature I did a decade ago about how a committee of black scholars advised o the creation of Addy. The look and texture of her hair was definitely carefully considered: slate.com/culture/2016...

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Religious Cinema for Non-Believers: Martin Scorsese’s SILENCE www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2019/04/10/m...

The first edition of this book was very good, and I'm excited to read this new edition. Don't miss out on a chance to get a signed copy from a person some are calling "one the best up-and-coming Chicago critics in the business" (me, I am saying that)

Are you an Atlanta-area film critic, podcaster, video essayist, or entertainment journalist with 5+ years of relevant experience? Our Atlanta Film Critics Circle application period closes at the end of February. For more information or to apply: atlfilmcritics.org/contact/ #AFCC

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I joined Adam and Josh to talk WUTHERING HEIGHTS (2026) over on the Filmspotting podcast:

For Chicago folks, our library has a lot of Frederick Wiseman work on DVD

The Robert Duvall performance you need to watch first (because there's a chance you haven't seen it): THE APOSTLE.

Towards the Afropastoral: What NOPE Says About the Black Western

Insight: Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped. reut.rs/4qzZRCE

I have four articles in the paper today, but this is the one of which I'm most proud. BOYZ N THE HOOD turns 35 this year, so I wrote an anniversary tribute. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/13/a...

Yup. This is largely why I included THE PURGE in the "Prophetic Horror" chapter of Fear Not!, as it exposes the American idol of violence.